Here's the first blurry picture of the GeForce GTX Titan PCB. Among the structures we can make out on the surprisingly not to busy metropolis is the ASIC itself, which uses an integrated heatspreader much like every other high-end NVIDIA GPU. The card draws power from a combination of 6-pin and 8-pin PCIe power connectors. It is then conditioned to the various power domains by what appears to be an 8+2+2 phase VRM.

One can easily make out 12 memory chips, but that's just on the side that we see. We know for a fact that there are no 4 Gbit GDDR5 memory chips that graphics card makers can buy (at least not at a viable price), and so this card should most definitely use 12 chips on the reverse side.

The point to watch :
- 8 Pin power & 6 Pin power same as GTX 480 and 580 placement, but no hole with the PCB
- Placement of RAM tottally different than GTX 280,GTX 480, GTX 580 and GTX 680 as far as I know
- The yellow components, what is that?look like MSI lightning components

I would imagine that PCI-E @ 8x v1.1 would gimp it more than it is there.

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Doesn't your board reduce bandwidth automatically when not in full use? I know mine reduces my main 7970 to x8 2.0 when idling and the secondary card to x8 1.1 when idling. Put a load on them and as soon as the clock speeds go to 3d clocks, both pop up to x16 3.0. It could just be an x79 or AMD thing, but the bandwidth load test in GPUz must be there for a reason...